“…Scopim-Ribeiro et al (2015) [22] included patients with both de novo AML and MDS, however, only patients with MDS were included in the meta-analysis. The median age in the eight studies [12, 15, 16, 22, 23, 25–27] was older than 60 years old, the median age was younger than 60 years old in four studies [20, 21, 24, 28] and the median age was not available in the other two studies [29, 30]. Patients in 10 eligible studies [12, 14, 20–27] were classified by WHO criteria, patients in 3 studies [28–30] were classified by FAB criteria and patients in KOSMIIDER et al (2009) [16] were classified by both WHO and FAB criteria.…”